The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-10-01
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
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iParlor cars are to be abandoned on the
CoIfral Railroad.
-tSl500 is paid in ways every month to
The employees of the Nazereth Knitting
milh.
1.-The United States Labor Bureau is
about TO begin an inquiry into the condition
of rlilroad employees.
IA large frame addition has been built
to the Lehigh Stove Works and at an early
day thirty new men will find constant en-
ployment.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has declared a quarterly dividend of Ia
per cent. The employees never declare a
dividend.
AN addition is being built to st. Luke's
Hospital at Bethlehem, the money for which
was contributed by workingmen who devot-
ed one days pay for that purpose.
The Blandon rolling mill, one of the
largest establishments Of the kind in the
SchuYlkill Valley, and which has been out
of blast for some months, will be in full
blast early in October.
The Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal Ex-
changes Tuesday agreed upon an advance
II fifteen to thirty cents per ton upon an
thracite coal at the mines. The advance
will take effect October 1.
The abolition of poverty car never
come; there must from necessity be two
classes--the rich and the poor. But the
betterment of the condition of laborng
masses can come and will come if the
Knights of Labor move and act right the
programme of their organization.
"A mortgage for fifty million dollars
against the Central Railroad Company of
New Jersey was filed in Wilkes-Bafre Mon
day In the office of the Recorder of Deeds,
1t is in favor of the Central Trust Company,
of New York, is dated July, 1887, and is 10
run one hundred years, bearing per cent,
interest.
The strike of the coal miners in Lehigh
region still continues. Supply stores have
been established in many of the towns and
the strikers are not made to want for the
neceSsaries of living. 1t is propable, how
ever, that the difficulties will soon be ad-
justeH and the miners will go back to
work.
We note by our exchanges that many
miners are leaving the coal regions with the
intention of seeking employment elsewhere.
A large number of Hungarians, Poles, &C.,
have secured tickets and will leave for the
Oiu SOuublJ dJ carly udys b1lS
nave the effect of bettering the condition of
the miners and other employees in and
about the mines.
If the coal operators of the Lehigh re-
glon hope to starYe the miners into sub
mission they are barking up the wrong tree.
Tons of provisions will be dealt out in this
region to the strikers should the strike con-
tinue very long. Never were men better
provided for during any siege that they have
been engaged in, than will they during the
present trouble. That will be very consol-
ing to those who are battling for The right.
Plain Speaker.
The Knights of Labor are proving
themselves TO be powerful organization.
In demonstration of their faith in the pro-
lection of American industry the Knights
employed by tine Reading Railroad Com
pany on Tuesday compelled the captains of
two foreign vessels which arrived at Phila-
delphia to employ white members of the
knights at union rates in discharging their
cargoes instead of employing foreign crews
to do the work.
The anthracite coal trade is now fairly
booming" and the demand for all sizes of
coal excepting pea and buckwheat greatly
exceeds the production, which is curtailed
by strike in the Lehigh region. Not only
is all the newly mined coal now being for
warded from the mines going directly into
consumption, but the accumulated stocks
of anthracite at tidewater shipping points
are being draw upon as well to make up
the deficiency in the output.
The extent to which organized labor
can actually advance the value of labor oyer
what labor would bring without such Or
ganization is subject which has received
but little attention from employers or en-
ployed Labor answers by referring to all
the numerous advances that have been
made, which it counts as so much gain.
Employers deduct increased cost of rent and
living and increased expenditure induced
by higher wages. The gain, while some-
thing, is less than it appears TO be on ac-
count of offsetting causes.-Record